Italy vs Sweden: Real interest rate

Italy
2.0%
in 2025
Sweden
1.9%
in 2006
Italy rank
105th
Sweden rank
108th

Real interest rate over time

  • Italy
  • Sweden
051015198920072025

How they compare

Italy currently reports 2.0% against 1.9% in Sweden, a difference of 0.1%.

That makes Italy's figure about 1.1 times Sweden's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 15 shared years of data; in 1992 it was Sweden ahead.

Globally, Italy ranks 105th and Sweden ranks 108th of 148 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Real interest rate (%)
Unit
%
Source
International Financial Statistics database, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
148 places, 4,763 data points, 1961–2025
Last refreshed

An interest rate is the amount charged, expressed as a percentage of the principal over a period of time, by the owners of certain kinds of financial assets for putting the financial assets at the disposal of another institutional unit. The real interest rate is the lending interest rate adjusted for inflation as measured by the GDP deflator. The terms and conditions attached to lending rates differ by country, however, limiting their comparability. This indicator is expressed as a percentage (a÷b)*100.